Tower of Babel
Note that the work cited here is only a possible match with the seveteenth-century record
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 79, № 16
Valckenborch
Tower of Babel, many little and curious figures
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
0ft 8¾in x 0ft 11½in (22.2 x 29.2cm)
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
curious carved and gilded frame
Provenance:
Sir David Murray when Prince of Wales
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 6
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51